Infinite Women

Dr. Gwendolyn Collaço, Anne S.K. Brown Curator for Military & Society at Brown University Library, to talk about both the namesake of her role, military historian Anne S.K. Brown, as well as art collector Adrienne Minassian.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Gwendolyn-Collaco-on-Anne-S.K.-Brown-and-Adrienne-Minassian-transcript.pdf

Barbara Winslow, professor emerita in women and gender studies at Brooklyn College and founder and director emerita of the Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism, joins us to discuss the rise and fall of Roe v Wade and how the activist tactics used to gain American abortion rights decades ago can prove effective in protecting them today.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Barbara-Winslow-on-abortion-activism-transcript.pdf

Dr Deborah Hart, Head Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Post-Impressionist painter Ethel Carrick.

An exhibition of Carrick’s work is on display at the NGA through 27 April 2025, and the accompanying publication is available for purchase: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/ethel-carrick

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Deborah-Hart-on-Ethel-Carrick-transcript.pdf

Dr Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and African-American Studies at Yale University and author of the new book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, as well as Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, joins us to tell the story of Marie-Louise, who was queen of Haiti from 1811 to 1820.

More about The First and Last King of Haiti: kingofhaiti.com

More about Awakening the Ashes: uncpress.org/book/9781469676845/awakening-the-ashes

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Marlene-Daut-on-Queen-Marie-Louise-of-Haiti-transcript.pdf

Dr Maria Antico, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Image analysis at the Australian e-Health Research Centre and Adjunct Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, joins us for a chat about her scientific forebear, astrophysicist Margherita Hack, as well as her own research developing wearable ultrasound technology for use in space and here on Earth.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Maria-Antico-on-Margherita-Hack-transcript.pdf

Amy-Jane Humphries, PhD Student at the University of Liverpool, joins us to talk about the Hanoverian rise to the English throne, and royals like Caroline of Ansbach and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Amy-Jane-Humpries-on-the-Hanoverians-transcript.pdf

Kate Saccone, Project Manager and an editor for The Women Film Pioneers Project, tells us about some of the fascinating women of the silent film era and we delve into the reasons so many were lost to history and how some patterns persist even today in the film industry.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kate-Saccone-on-the-lost-women-of-early-cinema-transcript.pdf

Dr Rebecca Edwards, Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Australian potter and painter Anne Dangar. An exhibition of Dangar’s work, curated by Dr. Edwards, is on at the NGA through 27 April 2025: https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/anne-dangar/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rebecca-Edwards-on-Anne-Dangar-transcript.pdf

Karen Valby is the author of the book The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History. Karlya Shelton-Benjamin is one of the titular dancers. The book is also a history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which shifted the national narrative of who could be a ballerina.

Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716415/the-swans-of-harlem-by-karen-valby/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Karen-Valby-and-Karlya-Shelton-Benjamin-on-the-Black-ballerinas-of-Dance-Theatre-of-Harlem-transcript.pdf

Dr. Stevenson previously joined us to discuss women in the early years of Australian observatories, specifically in the context of the decades-long, international Astrographic Catalogue project. But as always, the more you dig, the more women’s stories you will uncover, so Dr Stevenson is back to tell us about women in Australian astronomy.

Read the interview trancript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Toner-Stevenson-on-Australias-early-amateur-astronomers-transcript.pdf